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1) MS Dhoni has selective thought processes. Yes, it was unfortunate that he lost his best bowler on the Day 1. Chopping and changing your order doesn’t help when you are trying to save a Test match. But there is one glaring hole in the argument that it cost India the game – Day 3. India had a full batting line up on traditionally the best day for batting at Lord’s, and England blew them away. Working out why that happened would be more helpful than blaming misfortune.

2) Stuart Broad is good. One day he could be really good. What he isn’t is consistent – this is why the words “Ashes 2009” follow him around like a bad smell. It isn’t because he was really good that day that this happens, otherwise we would be saying “Durban 2009” every time someone mentioned Graeme Swann. The reason that is stuck to Stuart Broad is because he has been very “meh” since then. Lord’s has to be the start of a consistent run now – he is too old to be promising now, and Tim Bresnan is far too good to be left hanging around if we need to wait another 18 months for a performance like that.

3) Rahul Dravid will never, ever, get the praise that he deserves.

4) If Matt Prior being labelled as some sort of hero who would swallow asbestos just to earn the team an extra run is getting tiresome. I love him, but he is just doing his job. Really well. Scoring a hundred from 60/5 is not “unselfish”, it is just “being good”. Slapping it about to get to a hundred is not “unselfish”, it is “getting on with it so the captain doesn’t declare with you on 85*”. Pietersen did something very similar in the first innings, but “unselfish” doesn’t really sit with how we like to view him so we gloss over it.